Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released the 2017 edition of Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State that estimates the size, scope, and burden of federal regulations based on the best...

I mean, it’s impossible for a real person to not understand the implication of the tax deadline passing when discussing the enforcement of regulation. You are literally paying for regulations and if you don’t pay you can go to fucking jail.

I’m used to the stupidity at this point, but this is some next level dumb.

I just can’t let this go. Derpy McDerperson “Derrrrr the taxing filing deadline is proof that da lawz are enforced derrr?”

The IRS is regulatory burden with the sole function of collecting tax revenue TO PAY FOR OTHER REGULATORY BURDEN. People literally go to jail for tax evasion.

My god, man.

Derpy McDerperson III “point of order, states enforce some federal laws.” Like it fucking matters who enforces the laws from a regulatory burden perspective. Rocky and fucking Bulwinkle could enforce regulation and it would make zero difference from an employers perspective.

And how realistic is it for the upper echelon of corporations to face jail time for not following regulations?

The way your mind works is baffling.

Regulatory burden =/= jail time. The tax filing deadline and tax evasion was just a timely example used to illustrate how little you know about the topic.

The board of directors of every “plain corporation” is required to sign their annual, third party, audit attesting to the completeness and validity of the financial statements being presented. That’s regulatory burden, one that can also result in legal action against a company’s management including the possibility of jail time.

The board of directors of every “plain corporation” is required to sign their annual, third party, audit attesting to the completeness and validity of the financial statements being presented. That’s regulatory burden, one that can also result in legal action against a company’s management including the possibility of jail time.

It’s immaterial any way. About 70% of the employers in the country are small businesses so in some sense it doesn’t really matter what the other 30% are–they could be robber barons. Wouldn’t change the fact that regulatory burden is very real for the 70% of “main Street” (or whatever) is very, very real for the people Zep professes to care about (which he doesn’t, because “profits are evil”).